robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Just checked a unit is 100 cubic feet of water = 748 gallons.

Lately I notice that on watering day about 2/3 of the places I see water running out and down the gutters are - - - government buildings and parks.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Odd , my water company uses gallons, not cubic feet.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Most people in Arizona have come to realize that we live in a desert. People in California have not recognized that fact yet. Watering your lawn, hell even having a lawn, is a waste a precious resource, water. When was the last time you drove north on I-5 from the Grapevine to Los Banos. It used to be solid green from agricultural use of water. When water became more valuable than crops, a lot of farmers and agribusiness in the San Juaquin Valley sold their water rights to the cities in Southern California so people could fill their swimming pools and water their lawns.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Heh, it is California!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Some also went over to low water need hybrids, underground drip lines or green houses for the vegetables where almost all of the loss to evaporation condenses inside when it cools at night and waters the plants all over again. I read somewhere the Israelis developed the drip lines and the indoor vegetable raising. Only they use a lot of desalted sea water.

Since the climate goes in cycles (long cycles, not a person's life time) it is possible we could go back to the climate of the last glacial advance 11,000 to 14,000 years ago when the Los Angeles Basin was a land of lakes, ponds, streams and marshland. That is how all those bones got in the La Brea Tar Pits. The tar was covered by water and the animals thought it was just another lake and waded our to drink etc. All the vultures etc. then went to chow down on the bigger animals like the mammoths before they sank out of sight and in turn fell or jumped off and got stuck in the tar also. Now they are skeletons mounted in museums.
There is one 20 something female human's bones that were found in the tar pits. She had some kind of disease that was eating her skull and probably the brain also. Speculation is that it caused strange behavior that would make primative people think "demon possessed". She was killed by the infamous "blunt object to the head" and probably thrown in because they believed the demon possessing her wouldn't be able to get out of the tar to go after anyone else.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Probably down 60-75'. Boats sit on the ground in dry marinas. Sunk boats & bodies (some in 55 gal barrels) have been found. Too low & they won't be able to run the generators.

Xanadu Loc: Clay County FL

This post will probably exhibit my ignorance.
I have been to Las Vegas and I have visited the dam and the Grand Canyon. After these visits, my brain keeps re-visiting the images of Las Vegas - green golf courses in the midst of the desert, water fountains spraying water into the air where it can evaporate, swimming pools, etc.
It would be interesting to know how much water is squandered to sustain the extravagant tourist trade in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is the highest profile. I am sure there are other contributors.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Wow - what a shame!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

waegwan Loc: Mae Won Li

It is heartbreaking. I remember the lake and dam from 60 to 50 years ago. I was there last February and it just broke my heart.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice shots.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

I'm sure there other cities in the Great Southwest that are growing, but St George has to take the prize for unfettered growth. Where are they going to get the water and power when Meade and Powell dry up? I'm thinking a pipeline from the Columbia and or the Mississippi rivers that just dump into the ocean might help, but slowing down the madhouse building and restricting the amount of water for everyone should be at the top of the list.

Ben's nana Loc: Chesterland, Ohio

That is a sad predictor of things to come
Fran

tomc601 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

Scary sight, especially living here in AZ. With so much talk about rising sea levels, how 'bout we start building desalinization plants and pipe that water to where it's needed. Seems it would solve two problems at once.

LestheK

It's a desert folks. we're not supposed to be there.